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Bruce Cockburn “Blind Willie” – Listen

June 27, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Bruce Cockburn really does not need an introduction – let’s just leave it at a tally of his most recent major awards and leave it at that: 2018 Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album Of The […]

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Video: Andrew Combs “Stars Of Longing”

June 27, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

This is Nashville man Andrew Combs new single, taken from his latest album “Ideal Man“, out on September 20th.  He’s in Europe in November & December too, including a London date on December 10th.

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“Sonic Pioneers” 3hattrio announce UK summer dates

June 26, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Utah “desert music” band 3hattrio count Tom Russell, Steve Martin and Martha Scanlan as fans, the former of which has described them as “sonic pioneers”, and they’ve just announced some UK dates for August and September, […]

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Molly Thomas & The Rare Birds “Honey’s Fury” (Independent 2019)

June 26, 2019 Alan Fitter 0

‘Honey’s Fury’ is the debut album from the Alabama based Molly Thomas & The Rare Birds. Molly is best known for her violin work on other singers’ albums such as Todd Snider, Will Hoge and Matthew […]

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The Sheepdogs + Creatures, The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 18th June 2019

June 26, 2019 Clint West 0

The Sheepdogs may hail from Saskatoon, Canada but it’s clear that their musical roots lay much further south – The Allman Brothers and the whole early seventies ‘southern rock’ scene based around Capricorn Records in Macon, […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. – Mary Kay Place There appears to be very little in the way of pretence in Jess Klein’s songs. The emotions […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: St. Paul and the Broken Bones “Don’t Mean a Thing”

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Last week Rick Bayles noted that “She Never Spoke Spanish To Me”. It’s a rare occurrence for me too since Italy is my favoured foreign holiday destination. That said I was once friends with a Mexican […]

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The Australian musical collective The Counterfeit don’t describe themselves as a band – they are a musical posse, metaphorically riding out to capture the atmosphere and excitement of some of the tunes that would go onto […]

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